Roxana

Family: Macedonian · Role: mother of Alexander · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 6

In Book 1, Chapter 6, Roxana is identified as the daughter of Oxyartes and the mother of Alexander: “the lad Alexander, the son of Alexander by Roxana the daughter of Oxyartes”. In Book 9, Chapter 7, Alexander is again described as “Alexander his son by Roxana”.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 6

• child: Alexander (son of Alexander) “the lad Alexander, the son of Alexander by Roxana the daughter of Oxyartes”
• parent: Oxyartes “Roxana the daughter of Oxyartes”

Book 9 · Chapter 7

• child: Alexander his son by Roxana “Alexander his son by Roxana”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.